Maria Alyokhina, a member of Russian feminist punk band Pussy Riot, told the UK’s Guardian newspaper that her imprisonment included nearly three weeks of forced daily gynecological exams. Alyokhina spent almost two years in prison for a performance that was critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin. She and another member of Pussy Riot were released last week. [Talking Points Memo]

Check out this list of the best pieces from 2013 that every woman needs to read. [Huffington Post]

A writer over at HuffPo is real, real mad about recent criticism of “white feminism” and has proposed a rather lengthy Twitter hashtag in support of her demand that women of color feminists leave whitey alone. Yawn. [Huffington Post]

Meet the young female skateboarders who are proving they can do everything boys can. [MSNBC]

Remember the Montana judge who described a 14-year-old rape victim as appearing “older than her chronological age” and sentence her rapist/teacher to only a month in jail? Well, he’s at it again. Judge G. Todd Baugh sentenced a man convicted of punching his girlfriend to write “Boys do not hit girls” 5,000 times. He also sentenced Pacer Anthony Ferguson, 27, to six months in jail and $3,800 in restitution for fracturing the woman’s face in three places. [Business Insider]

A Connecticut jury awarded the ex-wife of former White House lawyer John Michael Farren $28.6 million in damages after finding him liable for beating her nearly to death in 2010. [NY Times]

According to a new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, many pharmacists are giving teenagers misleading information about the policies surrounding emergency contraception (Plan B), sometimes even preventing them from buying it. [Think Progress]